Geographic Decentralization Salon @ SBC '25
Geographic decentralisation is a prerequisite for the censorship resistance and neutrality that Ethereum, Bitcoin and similar systems aim to provide. Thus far, little work has been done to understand how protocols can be designed to facilitate, or at least preserve, geographic decentralisation.
Join us in an effort to understand this multi-faceted problem
This will be an intimate, highly-interactive salon bringing together a few streams of ongoing work. The aim is to accelerate these projects and spawn new ones.
Agenda:
16:00-16:05: Introduction (Quintus Kilbourn)
Ethereum: Case Study
16:05-16:20: Geo Decentralization & Ethereum: A Data Perspective (Data Always)
16:20-16:35: Simulating Centralization (Burak Oz, Sen Yang)
Colocation Incentives
16:35-16:50: Shorter Slots and Eth Block Building (Phil Daian)
16:50-17:05: Geographically Distributed Auctions (Mallesh Pai)
17:15-17:20: The Geographic Impact of Multiple Concurrent Proposer (Pranav Garimidi)
Measuring Location
17:20-17:35: BFT Proof of Location (Ranvir Rana)
17:35-17:45: Proof-of-Location: On-Earth and Orbital Roots of Trust (Filip Rezabek)
17:45-17:50: Cost of Kidnapping: Graduating From The Nakamoto Coefficient (Lu Zhang)
Discussion
18:00: Dinner & Breakouts
19:30: Presentations from breakout groups
Unstructured discussion…
Background Reading